Announcements
The Department of Economics joined the Watson Institute and Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center in sponsoring the Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) conference on November 7 – 8. The meeting of scholars in the field of economic development, a regular event for over forty years, involved numerous Economics graduate students and faculty.
Migration, fertility, education, poverty and inequality, and rural growth are only a sampling of the topics covered by the more than 200 papers presented at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference held at Brown Nov. 7-8. The PSTC (Population Studies and Training Center) hosted and co-sponsored, along with the Economics Department and the Watson Institute, the annual conference, which has provided a major forum in development economics for scholars from around the globe since 1967.
Professor of Economics Andrew Foster, who serves on the NEUDC board and is also a Professor of Community Health and Director of PSTC, organized the conference for nearly 400 participants from across the country and overseas, with the help of PSTC staff. Brown University President Christina Paxson, also a Professor of Economics, PSTC Associate, and member of NEUDC, gave the welcoming remarks at the opening reception.
Represented on the program for this year's gathering with many serving as panel chairs and paper discussants in addition to presenting their own work were Economics Ph.D. students Alex Eble, Margarita Gafaro, Morgan Hardy, Sveta Milusheva, Heitor Pellegrina, and Adrian Rubli, Tufts University Assistant Professor of Economics Adam Storeygard (a 2012 Brown Ph.D.), and Assistant Professor of Economics Daniel Bjorkegren.